The desire to attain democracy and freedom echos resoundingly among freedom loving people in the world. The recent scent of jasmine flowers and blooms from the Red Shirt movement in Thailand and spread to Tunisia and Egypt. It is evident that while the US government policy is vocally seemingly against the entrenched leaders who are key US allies and pro the people. The reality argues that, if they had a choice, they would support the old authoritarian establishment. When will they learn the lesson that gave birth to its own revolution. They support repression and crimes against humanity in Thailand. Will they commit the same sin in Egypt? Listen to the people, let freedom lead the way. Nibhat

Instead of printing arrogant zionist nonsense, why don't you get ready for a
democratic Middle East in which apartheid Israel will be shown as it really
is, and will be forced to change and accept a single state as a minority?> Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan......... this is getting serious!

Feed these people? You should try a reduction of the energy and food you consume (or rather waste) and send it to them. It would also help you in losing your obesity.
Are you not ashamed of your pontifications urbi et orbi?

The chaos is most certainly spreading- to even the unprecedented Yemen. This 'Jasmine Revolution' is most certainly the interesting one- another 'democracy upheaval'.
However, I, for one, just don't see democracy, perhaps even slivers- as scraps, given to calm the masses- happening anytime soon. Democracy hasn't been a historically friendly thing in the Middle East, has it been? Besides, the chances of a dictator loosening their power is highly unlikely. The revolution certainly isn't surprising-but it's a problem for the existing dictatorships, but how they will handle it is most likely going to be less satisfying to the people than not.

WastingDC: The following fell reminder, is appropriate as Egyptian's die, and display their, and our magnificent human preference, at any risk, for individual liberty, where ever we tend to be located.

Lest We Forget: On one 9/11 terrorist's plane, a handful of Americans carefully disarmed by public employee union member's infringement of their rights to keep and bear arms, for personal defense, chose to give up their lives in service of Freedom, and their American Republic. Greater Love, nor Greater Courage, can ever be demonstrated, albeit it may well be being equaled in many places today, in Egypt. With bare hands, American passengers attacked armed 9/11 terrorists, that TSA proves monthly during penetration exercises they cannot prevent, detect, or disarm like they illegally disarmed the heroes and other passengers on that fated flight, in defiance of our US constitution. Politicians and other misinformed bureaucrats insist on attempting to continue and extend the infringement of weapons rights of our helpless blue states' disarmed law abiding citizens, to the rest of us. Facing exactly the horrors our forefathers sought to prevent, those American 9/11 heroes scattered their plane, the terrorists, and their own shattered bodies, over a field of honor, in Pennsylvania. Their sacrifices saved countless politicians, and public employee union members as the plane was apparently intended to attack the White House, Capitol Building, or another icon of the clueless politicians that work daily to take away the private arms that made America, and have kept the Republic whole, for centuries. Remember our revolution started when British troops were ordered to seize and destroy a store of citizen's arms and ammunition, near a bridge in Concord. The deaths of those 9/11 heroes and their fellow passengers were in large part, caused by anti-gunners among our politicians, police unions, and Public Employee Union member regulators, preventing law abiding travelers, particularly the several long service military personnel proved to have been on several 9/11 passenger lists, along with law officers, and other trained and vetted homeland defense volunteers, including trained serving Civil Servants, and military retired, active and reservists, bearing arms, to protect millions of American flights, trains, buses, and subways they take daily, just as is done by always armed Israeli homeland defense volunteers, where ever they are standing, when terrorists strike.

Read CP's forwarded history lesson below, it could save your life, and the American Republic, if you learn from reading those historic lessons, or by watching enslaved Egyptian families, and millions of other humans, forced to repeat them, with their bare hands against Iranian, or other criminals' AK47s, grenades, et al. "Class Person" CP, is a euphemism for our really vulgar nickname, for this beloved Nuclear Engineer class mate.

CP's most telling Historical Quotation:
In WWII Japan 's highest ranking naval officer was Isoruku Yamamoto. Although he was Japanese, and his loyalties were unquestionably with The Empire, he studied for many years in America, graduating from Harvard University. There is an oft-repeated (and sometimes disputed) quote attributed to him regarding the possibility of any nation taking a war to American soil: "You cannot invade the mainland United States . There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.
"Here is why he was correct:
America's Hunters. The World's Largest Army.
The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That's great, considering there were over 600,000 hunters that got permits this year.

Allow me to restate that number. Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world - more men under arms than Iran; more than France and Germany combined - deployed to the woods of a single American state to keep the deer population under control. But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week. Michigan's 700,000 hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia , and it is literally the case that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world. And that is just FOUR states. The total population of registered hunters in America today ranges from 23 million to 43.7 million individuals. (Based on annual data provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.)

As long as the American Hunter retains his right to Bear Arms, America will forever be safe from foreign invasion of troops. Hunting - it's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's a matter of national security.

The impotency and humiliation felt among ordinary Arab over their foreign policy destiny combined with the corruption and incompetency of the autocratic crony regimes are what that fuelled the Jasmine revolution.

More suspicious goings-on in Libya this morning as the city awoke to a lack of internet access - very close parallel with events in Egypt in the last few days. Even some talk about Facebook access being blocked.
For my perspective on events unfolding in the region, read my blog @http://wispajones.blogspot.com/

I've searched through the comments to this article for speculation that the Arab unrest and quest for democracy might spread to Saudi Arabia. I couldn't find any such speculation or even mention of Saudi in this context. Is the idea that Saudis might wan't a greater say in the rule of their country so preposterous? Or is the whole wave of unrest mainly a reflection of economic difficulties, something that supposedly less prevalent in Saudi?

first there was the tea party in the usa (which albeit racist) stood against big government. if the tea party had not been so racist, and had based its podium on viable provable facts (not death panels) but attacks against the fed reserve, attacks against PACs and campaign funding (esp the supreme court nod to corporate funding of elections), attacks against israels undue influence on american politics, attacks against wall street fleecing main street, then it would have been a most welcome element on the american scene.
after the tea party, you have the jasmine (tunisia) revolution; now egypt and coming soon..yemen.
people the world over are fed up with politicians and their money backers. politicians are SUPPOSED to serve the people, not the interests of the rothschilds or rockefellers or duponts or whomever else bank rolls them. obama, clinton, bush, and all the way down the line, republican, democrat, etc..same old game. what we are seeing in tunisia and egypt is an expression of frustration not only by the arab world, but the world in general.
in america (usa) they do not need to impose a police state, simply feed the massess 100s of channels of idiotic tv programming and worthless spoon-feeding called EDUCATION. the middle class is created to placate the masses making them feel "good" to have achieved the american dream. now that all the jobs have gone to india and china, that american dream is now becoming elusive and the masses are getting restless.
i see this as the tip of the ice-berg. europeans are also getting ansy, they don't like the picture on their scene, and troubles are bubbling on the white continent.
i foresee, within the next 2 years massive popular revolts. these revolts will be directed at the governments and the money interests. these revolts will be directed at the corporations that ship people's jobs away (when will we start outsourcing CEO jobs). when the american people turn off their televisions and start thinking once again, they too will join the global revolution.
capitalism is defunct, because it can no longer provide for the people. political systems are dysfunctional, something has to give, something new has to rise in place of what is, and this something new must have the needs of the people at its core...but it will take leadership and thinking people.
politicians, fat cat bankers, central bankers, international banking interests, intelligence operatives--these will be the casualties, when the people finally say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!

The fundamentalist neocons and Zionists have been praying and working for the day when the Messiah will re-appear again with the establishment of the Jewish enclave and the final return of the Jews to the Middle East. The day seems to get nearer by the hours.

The Hegemon could salvage some of its influences in the Middle-East by forcing its cronies to resign in the face of the massive democratic uprisings and pro-actively helping to install a progressive regime in their places. And while there is still time, the US should also fly out its cronies and their families to safety in the US.

I hope that the Egyptian people are successful in achieving a democratic government without much bloodshed. It would be a beacon of hope for many living in oppressive regimes around the mid east and far east as well as Africa.